Eighties SF Fashion Disasters

Next week is Ashes To Ashes week on the sfx.co.uk website, and to prepare we travel back to the ’80s to rediscover the greatest SF horror story of the decade. No, not brain-eating aliens – ’80s fashion

Welcome to the start of Ashes To Ashes week here at sfx.co.uk. Starting from Monday there'll be a bunch of totally exclusive Ashes To Ashes features on the site, as well as a couple of '80s themed nostalgia fests – like this one!

Join us as we travel back in time to the decade fashion would rather forget. A decade of big hair, big shoulder pads and tiny little ties; leg warmers, body warmers and catsuits; pastel shades and neon tights. On TV and in the movies nothing dates like the future and that goes doubly so for fashion, with SF predicting a future very much like the past.

So here’s SFX’s gallery of some of the greatest ’80s Sci Fi fashion disasters.

The aliens in V had clearly done their homework when it came to blending in with ’80s culture. They clearly came for our hair lacquer.